We are currently dealing with an unprecedented situation. One like no other and our top priority at the moment is to keep our community healthy and especially our health care workers that are working tirelessly to aid those affected by this horrendous pandemic. However, in all of this we are seeing restrictions come out daily which are brought upon us…

A new childbirth education program that’s breaking the norms is now in Brisbane. Birth Boot Camp is on the rise and breaking boundaries in what we know in preparation for birth. We’ve all seen and watched ‘One Born Every Minute’ and the medicalisation of birth that we have grown so accustomed to. Whenever you watch a birth in the media…

The fear mongering about big babies is so widespread that women are literally so anxious before the birth just from the fact that someone may have said to them that their carrying much bigger or their care provider may have planted the seed that their baby is a bit on the larger side. And so that seed of doubt grows…

Any mum that has suffered through postnatal depression or anxiety knows that it is a silent disease that feels like your all alone in the hopelessness that is your mind. But now the new drug Zulresso that promises some relief for that is paving the way to give these women some hope for a better tomorrow, but are we losing…

The Fourth Trimester ‘The first 40 days of life will impact the next 40 years of life’…this is an Indian saying deriving from an ancient tradition in which the minutes, hours, days and weeks following your birth should be spent nourishing your baby and nurturing yourself by having family and friends take care of you so you can rest and…

It is the controversial video that has been making the rounds on social media. A mum having a very gentle and calm home birth assisted only by the loving support of her partner and Doula. So now we ask why all the controversy? Why is this video getting so much hype and awareness that just on my facebook page it…

In supporting clients over many years now in their birthing journey I make sure that we go through their birth preferences way ahead of the birth so that they not only know their choices in birth but also what the evidence is behind the common interventions laid out to them as a menu in labour. Information is power in labour…

In your pregnancy when you started thinking about your birth you visualised this ‘perfect’ birth of candles lit in the background, your favourite music playing, your partner holding your hand as you slowly breathe out your baby to the ‘I am strong’ mantra playing over and over in your head. That’s how you prepared, that’s how you programmed your mind…

This article was written by Michelle Clift of Simply Natural Childbirth, whom is a HypnoBirthing ~ Mongan Method Practitioner in Doncaster East, Victoria. What the [email protected]#% is HypnoBirthing? So the mother of your unborn child has told you she wants to learn HypnoBirthing. You reply with Hypno What? I get it. It sounds strange and if you’re like most people,…

Doulas aren’t just for mums and babies – they’re for dads and partners, too! But let’s talk just dads in this post and make it all about dads, as that’s my area of experience and expertise. Dads, if you’re feeling sceptical about hiring a doula, wondering if a doula is worth the investment, or worried that a doula may replace…

My name is Moran and I am a mother to three healthy, smart and beautiful girls. My journey into the world of birthing began when I had my first child Isabella. Isabella’s birth was one filled with fear, intervention and post partum anxiety, the way all births are not meant to be.